I have a short attention span.
No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.
There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.
Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.
Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.
If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.
We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.
I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.
When a baseball player makes an error, it goes into the record and is published. How many of us could stand this sort of daily scrutiny?
A heart renewed--a loving heart--a penitent and humble heart--a heart broken and contrite, purified by love--that and only that is the rest of men. Spotlessness may do for angels, repentance unto life is the highest that belongs to man.
Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.